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Author: Kevin Sharpe
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1996-09-10
Total Pages: 1012
ISBN-13: 9780300065961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis authoritative reevaluation of Charles' personal rule yields new insights into his character, reign, politics, religion, foreign policy and finance. In doing so, the book offers a vivid new perspective on the origins of the English Civil War.
Author: Mark Parry
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-09-16
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 135177865X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles I provides a detailed overview of Charles Stuart, placing his reign firmly within the wider context of this turbulent period and examining the nature of one of the most complex monarchs in British history. The book is organised chronologically, beginning in 1600 and covering Charles’ early life, his first difficulties with his parliaments, the Personal Rule, the outbreak of Civil War, and his trial and eventual execution in 1649. Interwoven with historiography, the book emphasises the impact of Charles’ challenging inheritance on his early years as king and explores the transition from his original championing of international Protestantism to his later vision of a strong and centralised monarchy influenced by continental models, which eventually provoked rebellion and civil war across his three kingdoms. This study brings to light the mass of contradictions within Charles’ nature and his unusual approach to monarchy, resulting in his unrivaled status as the only English king to have been tried and executed by his own subjects. Offering a fresh approach to this significant reign and the fascinating character that held it, Charles I is the perfect book for students of early modern Britain and the English Civil War.
Author: Grant Tapsell
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1843833050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 1681 until his death in 1685 Charles II ruled without a Parliament, and his personal rule forms the central subject of this book. The author discusses the nature of the Whig and Tory parties at this crucial period of their formation as political parties, showing how they coped with the absence of a parliamentary forum.
Author: Howard Tomlinson
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780333308981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Pauline Gregg
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780520051461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of the British monarch examines his upbringing, personality, and the events that led to his downfall
Author: Blair Worden
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2009-11-19
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 0297857592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian. The political upheaval of the mid-seventeenth century has no parallel in English history. Other events have changed the occupancy and the powers of the throne, but the conflict of 1640-60 was more dramatic: the monarchy and the House of Lords were abolished, to be replaced by a republic and military rule. In this wonderfully readable account, Blair Worden explores the events of this period and their origins - the war between King and Parliament, the execution of Charles I, Cromwell's rule and the Restoration - while aiming to reveal something more elusive: the motivations of contemporaries on both sides and the concerns of later generations.
Author: Charles I (King of England)
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Published: 1737
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Cust
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-11
Total Pages: 467
ISBN-13: 1317864379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles I was a complex man whose career intersected with some of the most dramatic events in English history. He played a central role in provoking the English Civil War, and his execution led to the only republican government Britain has ever known. Historians have struggled to get him into perspective, veering between outright condemnation and measured sympathy. Richard Cust shows that Charles I was not ‘unfit to be a king’, emphasising his strengths as a party leader and conviction politician, but concludes that, none the less, his prejudices and attitudes, and his mishandling of political crises did much to bring about a civil war in Britain. He argues that ultimately, after the war, Charles pushed his enemies into a position where they had little choice but to execute him.
Author: Mark Kishlansky
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2014-12-04
Total Pages: 125
ISBN-13: 0141979844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe tragedy of Charles I dominates one of the most strange and painful periods in British history as the whole island tore itself apart over a deadly, entangled series of religious and political disputes. In Mark Kishlansky's brilliant account it is never in doubt that Charles created his own catastrophe, but he was nonetheless opposed by men with far fewer scruples and less consistency who for often quite contradictory reasons conspired to destroy him. This is a remarkable portrait of one of the most talented, thoughtful, loyal, moral, artistically alert and yet, somehow, disastrous of all this country's rulers.
Author: Francis Haskell
Publisher: Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780300190120
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art."
